Therapy for Family Members or Carers

Carol can also offer therapy for family members and others affected by loved ones suffering from dementia, stroke, or end-of-life issues. This therapy would aim to:

Help individuals manage their feelings

Provide practical strategies to help their loved one

Provide information about and assist with understanding of dementia, stroke, and palliative care issues

Help individuals adjust to personality or cognitive changes in their loved one

Provide guidance on how to live or deal with a loved one

Assist individuals with how to relate to their loved one

About Carol

Carol Hunter is an experienced clinical psychologist with extensive experience in issues affecting older persons, and has a passion for helping people with age-related issues such as stroke and dementia. These may include mood problems such as anxiety and depression. She can also provide therapy to help with memory problems, personality change and dementia, as well as supportive therapy to families who have been affected by a member with dementia.

She has done clinical work in both hospitals and within community teams. She has also done research investigating the way people think about ageing and how this affects the decisions they make. Her areas of interest and activities include:

Therapy and behavioural interventions to individuals on an acute psycho-geriatric ward

Experience of behavioural assessment/management and providing therapy to individuals in aged care facilities

Credentialed trainer in Spaced Retrieval, which is a memory training technique to help people with memory problems (such as in dementia) to learn new information

Behavioural Management (including Montessori techniques) to those with a number of issues common to dementia

Provided training to Alzheimer’s SA

Convenor of the Australian Psychological Society’s Psychology and Ageing Interest Group (PAIG), and co-convenor of PAIG National